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ThamnopJiilus doliatus viexicamis (not of Allen) Chapman, BuU. Am. Mus. N. H., 



viii, 1896, 284 (Chichen-Itza, Yncatan; song). — Cole, Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., I, 1906, 131 (Chichen-Itza). 

 Thamnophilus doliatus yucatanensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxi, Oct. 



20, 1908, 193 (TeniAx, Yucatan; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 [Thamnophilus] doliatus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neolr., 1873, 70, part. — 



Sharps, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 15, part. 



THAMNOPHILUS MULTISTRIATUS Lafresnaye. 



BARRED-CRESTED ANTSHRIKE, 



Adult male. — Above black, rather narrowly barred with white, the 

 bars on tips of feathers of pileum and hindneck sometimes partaking 

 of the form of spots (a pair on tip of each feather, separated by a rather 

 broad median space of black) ; sides of head, chin, and throat streaked 

 with black and white, the streaks broadest on throat, narrower and 

 confused or intermixed with bars on auricular and suborbital regions ; 

 under parts of body and under tail-coverts conspicuously barred with 

 black and white, the bars of the two colors approximately equal in 

 \vddth, or the wliite ones wider, at least on the abdomen; maxilla 

 brownish black, the tomium pale horn color (bluish gray in life ?) ; 

 mandible light horn color, passing mto pale yellomsh terminally 

 (bluish gray in Hfe ?) ; legs and feet dusky (bluish gray in life ?) ; 

 length (skms), 148-156 (153); wing, 70-75 (72.5); tail, 61-66.5 

 (63 J); culmen, 18-20 (18.4); tarsus, 22.5-25 (23.9): middle toe, 

 14.5-16.5 (15. l).*^ 



Adult feinale. — Above plain bright cmnamon-rufous or rufous- 

 chestnut, somewhat interrupted on hmdneck, the back and rump 

 sometimes duller or more tawny and with faint indications of darker 

 bars; sides of head and neck (includmg sides of hmdneck), together 

 mth cliin and throat, conspicuously streaked with black and white; 

 rest of under parts white, passmg mto pale tawnay brown or fulvous on 

 flanks, tliighs, and under tail-coverts, everywhere broadly barred 

 with black, the bars much less distinct on flanks; bill, etc., as in adult 

 male; length (skins), 141-151 (146); wmg, 72-72.5 (72.2); tail, 

 64-67 (65.5); culmen, 17-18.5 (17.7); tarsus, 24; middle toe, 

 15-15.5 (15.2).^ 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult male, but plumage suffused, 

 more or less, with pale fulvous or brownish bufl". 



Young {male ?) . — Similar in general coloration to the adult female 

 but pileum mostly black, scapulars, interscapidars, and wdng-coverts 

 distinctly barred with dull black, and rump indistinctly barred with 

 dusky; black bars on under parts rather narrow, the ground color 

 very pale buff or buffy white. 



<* Seven specimens. * Two specimens. 



